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tip o'neill and ronald reagan got together and saved the program. sometimes you need to adjust to change the thing you care most about. tip o'neill did not sell off the democratic party by embracing that. if we do it in a responsible way that doesn't gut the program, i think the base of the party will understand. the alternative is doing nothing with bad damage to the economy, or the right wing of the republicans coming in and taking over and their answer to the solution would be much more draconian. host: jack in kentucky. caller: i have one question. can you guarantee -- guest: i thought you're going to ask why indiana university and kentucky and not playing basketball this year. for the first time they are now playing and we are rivals. i cannot talk about classified information on tv. things like stinger missiles are very problematic and we do everything we can to keep track of them. muammar gaddafi stockpiles of weapons, surface- to-air missiles and we're doing everything to track those down and secure them. the region was awash in those things
tip o'neill and ronald reagan got together and saved the program. sometimes you need to adjust to change the thing you care most about. tip o'neill did not sell off the democratic party by embracing that. if we do it in a responsible way that doesn't gut the program, i think the base of the party will understand. the alternative is doing nothing with bad damage to the economy, or the right wing of the republicans coming in and taking over and their answer to the solution would be much more...
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ronald reagan, you talked about him. what is going on with these red states with guys like you who are in all white districts, you are protesting against president obama because you were raised in a time when you thought you were better than everyone else. taxes need to be raised. also, reagan redressed and it changed social security. taxes need to be raced. georgia is one of the poorest states. guest: thank you for the call, james. i am not protesting president obama. i think his policies have failed. you talk about education and bank in georgia, the average teacher salary i think is $54,000 a year. in georgia, it is $52,815 a year. nationwide, the average teacher's salary is $44,000 a year so we are paying our teachers in georgia a higher average salary than the national average. you are right. the educational system in georgia is one of the lowest. why is that? we have to focus on those problems paying than president reagan was a big spender but he had a democrat congress to deal with for six of the eight years he was
ronald reagan, you talked about him. what is going on with these red states with guys like you who are in all white districts, you are protesting against president obama because you were raised in a time when you thought you were better than everyone else. taxes need to be raised. also, reagan redressed and it changed social security. taxes need to be raced. georgia is one of the poorest states. guest: thank you for the call, james. i am not protesting president obama. i think his policies have...
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ronald reagan winning back in 1984. guest: i am proud to take a little bit of credit for that four at one time being the democratic party chair in california. the republican party is a mirror of the national republican party in the sense that i think they lost track of where the country was moving. republican registration in 63.5% reagan's day was republican. today it is less than 30%. democrats did a good job of registering voters, but the republican party lost all of those people by their extreme right-wing philosophy and policies. host: pete wilson on the issue of immigration. why is that a mirror image? guest: we always had a hard time convincing latinos to vote, to register and to vote. we called them the sleeping giant. the sleeping giant woke up. he will send put an anti- immigration initiative on the ballot. the latino community came alive. a registered. now, they are a power in california and many other states. that is what has been the republican party from behind. when you support comprehensive immigration re
ronald reagan winning back in 1984. guest: i am proud to take a little bit of credit for that four at one time being the democratic party chair in california. the republican party is a mirror of the national republican party in the sense that i think they lost track of where the country was moving. republican registration in 63.5% reagan's day was republican. today it is less than 30%. democrats did a good job of registering voters, but the republican party lost all of those people by their...
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you go back through history, you look at ronald reagan in 1985. granted, he was the president, but when he got cancer and was at bethesda naval hospital, we had ex-usual crating detail with charts and graphs and all that. but does that apply in this case? probably not. i think each case has to be looked at differently. so it's a very tough question to answer. host: the comments of david lightman, joining us on the phone. he covers congress for mcclatchy newspapers. thanks very much for checking in with us on this friday morning. >> oh, pleasure, thank you. host: our phone lines are open. you can also join the conversation on our twitter page, twitter.com slashe cspanwj. or on facebook. there's this point, saying representative jackson and his family should know the speculation is probably worse than the actual problem. they've had plenty of experience with it. ryan on the phone from chicago, democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to say that i think there's been too much media overkill on this issue. of course, representa
you go back through history, you look at ronald reagan in 1985. granted, he was the president, but when he got cancer and was at bethesda naval hospital, we had ex-usual crating detail with charts and graphs and all that. but does that apply in this case? probably not. i think each case has to be looked at differently. so it's a very tough question to answer. host: the comments of david lightman, joining us on the phone. he covers congress for mcclatchy newspapers. thanks very much for checking...
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he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we asked them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the program they felt was the best. people said why did you take it in the first place, why don't you leave it there. host: from virginia, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm just sitting here amazed and outraged by the assertions that the former secretary is making. number one, blaming the obama administration for the mess in the middle east, because of obama's polices, as i recall a year ago, condoleezza rice and the other members of the bush administration were tripping over one another to claim that they were the ones responsible for the arab uprising, th
he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we asked them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the...
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caller: ronald reagan lowered taxes and revenues fell. in the years that followed he raised taxes seven times or eight times, not as much as he cut? . he called them revenue enhancers. bill clinton raised taxes, george bush raised taxes. throughout this whole time people created jobs. the right says that if you tax the job creators, they will not create jobs anymore. historically think that that is not true. i would like to invite you to defend the proposition. guest: that is a great question. it is not rates to go up and down, it is a rate that encourages people to invest. we have made progress in dramatically cutting rates. but even a keynesian economist would argue that in our current situation, where stock without the bounce of growth that you typically get after a recession. the last thing that you want to get -- the last thing you want to do is raise taxes right now. one of these is spending. we have gone from 18% to 25% spending in gdp. changing the tax rates at this moment to change the jobs, even john maynard keynes would laugh t
caller: ronald reagan lowered taxes and revenues fell. in the years that followed he raised taxes seven times or eight times, not as much as he cut? . he called them revenue enhancers. bill clinton raised taxes, george bush raised taxes. throughout this whole time people created jobs. the right says that if you tax the job creators, they will not create jobs anymore. historically think that that is not true. i would like to invite you to defend the proposition. guest: that is a great question....
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when ronald reagan got into office, he started regulating everything. before he got out of office, missouri was losing its shoe factories. in 1991, our factory closed and sold as several others. -- and so did several others. these people are not for the american people. they are out for the rich people in this country and i think it is sad when a democrat gets into office, they turn into bullies. they don't want the democrats to get a thing done. i think it is so pathetic. they are getting paid to work for this country and instead they are just a bunch of bullies. host: what about her sentiment? guest: i think vice president joe biden is interested in these issues. one thing he has worked and in the by president say is a task force or a commission -- in the vice presidency is a task force to work on this. these issues about jobs being exported and jobs leaving and about diminished security for the middle-class -- the questions that joe biden has thought a lot about. at a general level, he would be quite comfortable talking about this with paul ryan and
when ronald reagan got into office, he started regulating everything. before he got out of office, missouri was losing its shoe factories. in 1991, our factory closed and sold as several others. -- and so did several others. these people are not for the american people. they are out for the rich people in this country and i think it is sad when a democrat gets into office, they turn into bullies. they don't want the democrats to get a thing done. i think it is so pathetic. they are getting paid...
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reagan, the outsourcing of our jobs. there are a lot of people trying to live and $10 an hour while they are getting social security, medicare, taking out of their money, and then they are told by people like paul ryan and mitt romney that that is an entitlement. to me, that is like more of a ponzi scheme if they take that away. getting back to the elephant in the room, until we start talking about structurally change in this country beyond fighting over taxes -- you can fight over moving around the chairs on the titanic, but what really needs to be done is we need to repeal the trade agreement, look at taxing goods from china, and we need to get jobs back into this country, manufacturing jobs with wages people can live on and pressure for wages to go up. right now, the pressure is for wages to go down. you are fighting over what is less of the money coming in. host: let's go to the congressman. guest: this is an important issue that was fought over in the campaign. we need to support manufacturing in this country. i com
reagan, the outsourcing of our jobs. there are a lot of people trying to live and $10 an hour while they are getting social security, medicare, taking out of their money, and then they are told by people like paul ryan and mitt romney that that is an entitlement. to me, that is like more of a ponzi scheme if they take that away. getting back to the elephant in the room, until we start talking about structurally change in this country beyond fighting over taxes -- you can fight over moving...
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we have lost a lot of jobs in the public sector, jobs we did not lose under ronald reagan. government grew more in the reagan recovery that did it during the obama recovery. we need a conversation about the deficit. i did not see how we will achieve balance unless we have some combination of cuts and tax increases. we need some tax increases. we are an aging population. health care costs have risen. we have to figure out how to contain a that. i wish we could repeal the aging of the baby boomers. how are we going to pay when all these people retire and still approach a balanced budget? we've been kind of stymied because people have not been willing to say, "we need to raise some taxes." host: you said government is the solution in your "the washington post" column yesterday. guest: i get frustrated with my side of the argument. conservatives have been waging a focus campaign for over 30 years in government. ronald reagan said government is the problem. often they do not directly defend government. they say, "i'm really for the private sector." liberals become out and say we
we have lost a lot of jobs in the public sector, jobs we did not lose under ronald reagan. government grew more in the reagan recovery that did it during the obama recovery. we need a conversation about the deficit. i did not see how we will achieve balance unless we have some combination of cuts and tax increases. we need some tax increases. we are an aging population. health care costs have risen. we have to figure out how to contain a that. i wish we could repeal the aging of the baby...
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caller: i am calling from the home of ronald reagan. he lived right down the street. my question -- no, i have been falling politics. i remember in 2000 when george w. bush became president. we had a $259 billion budget surplus. then the republicans took control of the house and senate. they were talking about, yeah, we're going to give $1.2 trillion in tax cuts. in 2003, i believe it was $1.30 trillion in tax cuts. everybody said, no, do not do it, because you're going to blow a $5.60 trillion hole in the budget. and now, that is one of my questions. also, you said policies that are supposed to be job-related and everybody can see that these bills that you send over, you knew, you your heart that these bills would not be taken up by the democrats because that is the way you wanted it because you are falling right with mitch mcconnell, that you want to make this a one-term president. you need to answer to the american people why, one, did you distribute the wealth from the middle-class, the poor, to the upper class, and we'll look at 1 million galt -- jobs during the
caller: i am calling from the home of ronald reagan. he lived right down the street. my question -- no, i have been falling politics. i remember in 2000 when george w. bush became president. we had a $259 billion budget surplus. then the republicans took control of the house and senate. they were talking about, yeah, we're going to give $1.2 trillion in tax cuts. in 2003, i believe it was $1.30 trillion in tax cuts. everybody said, no, do not do it, because you're going to blow a $5.60 trillion...
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kennedy did, as ronald reagan did, as george w. bush did, and in fact, the bush tax cuts resulted in a 13% increase in revenue. the president knew that. he said that if you keep money in the private sector, it is not the government put the money, it is the people's money. if people keep the money, they could invest, hire more people. i believe tax cuts clearly create jobs, which then increases revenue and the bush tax cuts prove that point. i would be happy to get that information to you. do not hesitate to contact my office a i am telling the truth. host: barbara. south dakota. independent line. caller: good was just curious, e elected as a representative, senator, or congressman, i understand you are part of either the democratic or republican party, but once you are elected, is it not your duty to represent both parties, the democratic and republican, because you are our elected official? is it not your responsibility to look at both sides and take the best pieces from both sides and decide what is went to work best for the peop
kennedy did, as ronald reagan did, as george w. bush did, and in fact, the bush tax cuts resulted in a 13% increase in revenue. the president knew that. he said that if you keep money in the private sector, it is not the government put the money, it is the people's money. if people keep the money, they could invest, hire more people. i believe tax cuts clearly create jobs, which then increases revenue and the bush tax cuts prove that point. i would be happy to get that information to you. do...
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you are talking about the debt ceiling, it was raised 12 times under ronald reagan. you people are trying to destroy this economy, because you hate president obama because he's a black man. thank you. guest: there's a lot in that. i don't think the last thing is even worth a comment. that's just not true. relative to debt, this administration has put huge amounts of debt -- president obama had said that he would slash the deficit by a half in his first term. unfortunately, he's more than doubled it, just the opposite of what he said he was going to do. so there's much more debt that's been put on by, unfortunately, this administration than previous administrations. what the gentleman mentioned about chicago right now and the violence that's occurring there and the deaths and shootings, he's absolutely correct. it's been pretty tragic right now. it's something, of course, is a local issue. it's something the city of chicago needs to deal with. but this economy is a very, very rough economy. and this administration made a decision early on when they took over and when
you are talking about the debt ceiling, it was raised 12 times under ronald reagan. you people are trying to destroy this economy, because you hate president obama because he's a black man. thank you. guest: there's a lot in that. i don't think the last thing is even worth a comment. that's just not true. relative to debt, this administration has put huge amounts of debt -- president obama had said that he would slash the deficit by a half in his first term. unfortunately, he's more than...
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ronald reagan was promised two- one spending cuts to taxes. tip o'neill and company law and once again. guest: that is a myth. a good example of that in the post by the writer that talks about pinocchio. it has developed into almost a legend but it was a 121 promise that reagan himself misunderstood. they pretty much got the one-to- one. host: why is assigning blame more important than getting a resolution? that from rick on the twitter page. guest: 4 politicians, assigning blame is part of what they do, that is part of their job description. the need to explain to their constituents why they are supporting some things and not others. if you read most of the people that write about these spending programs and where we're headed in the federal budget, we did not assign blame. we're looking at the long term. over the long term, the only thing to blame would be our correct citizenry and politicians, if we can get our act together to do something about it. host: david is on the democrat's line. pennsylvania. good morning. caller: this is 1981 all
ronald reagan was promised two- one spending cuts to taxes. tip o'neill and company law and once again. guest: that is a myth. a good example of that in the post by the writer that talks about pinocchio. it has developed into almost a legend but it was a 121 promise that reagan himself misunderstood. they pretty much got the one-to- one. host: why is assigning blame more important than getting a resolution? that from rick on the twitter page. guest: 4 politicians, assigning blame is part of...
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reagan did in 1983, changing the nature of social security gradually, so people will not feel it, and we will make it solvent. we were much closer to social security going broke in 1983 that we are today. host: fall river, massachusetts. rose. independent caller. caller: good morning. i have a comment. high pay into medicare. -- ip into medicare. you talk about no cuts, but how come in 2011 i lost my eye benefit and hearing aid benefit? i am paying $93 a month for medicare. i pay 15% of my prescription costs. now it is $11, 43 -- $11.43. guest: we have cut congressional budgets, and that is inappropriate thing to do, and i'm sure we will look -- and that is an appropriate thing to do, and i'm sure we will look at that again. if you look to the total budget in these programs, they do not go down, they go up. we are not spending less. part of that is we are beginning the baby boomers moving into this. nobody has a reform proposal that would threaten any benefits this lady is currently receiving. nobody wants to do that. if we do not do these things, these programs go broke and her benef
reagan did in 1983, changing the nature of social security gradually, so people will not feel it, and we will make it solvent. we were much closer to social security going broke in 1983 that we are today. host: fall river, massachusetts. rose. independent caller. caller: good morning. i have a comment. high pay into medicare. -- ip into medicare. you talk about no cuts, but how come in 2011 i lost my eye benefit and hearing aid benefit? i am paying $93 a month for medicare. i pay 15% of my...
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but regarding president obama, from a rational point of view, if ronald reagan were to run for office tomorrow, he would be considered a moderate, which is why i as a republican and a republican for obama. i put country before party. we always have games in d.c. well educated, but nonetheless, games. we have to get past this. if mr. romney winds, he will receive my support. -- if mr. romney wins, you will receive my support. only one person on the rise and i could never support would be newt gingrich. in my opinion, newt is a political social pact. he plays toward the elements in our country that we hope to disperse, such as his phrases regarding a welfare president. despite the fact the majority of people on welfare are of european descent. the heart warming notion to bigots is that the face of welfare is one of color. now, racism in america is not based solely upon physical confinement. both a racist and the person who the vitriol is directed at our hurt. does anyone gets self-esteem from the degradation of others? that is it. and it seems to be what is at play in my party. i want c
but regarding president obama, from a rational point of view, if ronald reagan were to run for office tomorrow, he would be considered a moderate, which is why i as a republican and a republican for obama. i put country before party. we always have games in d.c. well educated, but nonetheless, games. we have to get past this. if mr. romney winds, he will receive my support. -- if mr. romney wins, you will receive my support. only one person on the rise and i could never support would be newt...
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when you look back and see historically that the debt ceiling was raised 17 times, under ronald reagan and eight times under george h. w. bush canada seven times under bill clinton and six times under george w. bush, really it is honoring the full faith and credit of the u.s. government. , iaching that to a debt understand ideologically why people might want to do that, but why would you take the nation to this process? there was a passage of a special select committee. that select committee, if it did not respond with further cuts and tax increases, would seek a so-called sequestration comoe spending domestic and military spending. already in congress we obscene that while the cuts have been made on the military side, some would say there's more to come and on the domestic side and others would argue there's more to come there, the cuts have been severe. but there has not been a single cent of revenue raised even from the nation's wealthiest 2%, who have done pretty well even in these bad times. so here's where the fairness of the whole argument comes in. the fairness is not that this
when you look back and see historically that the debt ceiling was raised 17 times, under ronald reagan and eight times under george h. w. bush canada seven times under bill clinton and six times under george w. bush, really it is honoring the full faith and credit of the u.s. government. , iaching that to a debt understand ideologically why people might want to do that, but why would you take the nation to this process? there was a passage of a special select committee. that select committee,...
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the polls suggested it was close weeks and days before ronald reagan's landslide victory over jimmy carter. i say that not based on polling but on attitudes you pick up when talking to people. president obama is making a big push to appeal to black voters. if he is having to do that, he has a problem on his hands. i do trust that operation to know what is going on out there. you can criticize them. they make mistakes. they are not delusional. they know what they are dealing with. i think that is why they have been playing such hardball. they have a problem on their hands and note it. i could absolutely see that. i think we could be looking at a large shift in -- shifting one where the other. i think it will end up going against obama. pele are really angry about their. i am alone. no one else seems to think that. host: arlington, texas, democrats line. caller: i want to make three comments. the republican candidate is a very different person. his involvement has made him look very different from the ordinary american. that is the first comment. the second comment is this. he has not define
the polls suggested it was close weeks and days before ronald reagan's landslide victory over jimmy carter. i say that not based on polling but on attitudes you pick up when talking to people. president obama is making a big push to appeal to black voters. if he is having to do that, he has a problem on his hands. i do trust that operation to know what is going on out there. you can criticize them. they make mistakes. they are not delusional. they know what they are dealing with. i think that...
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in 1982 they said ronald reagan let's raise taxes and we will cut spending. they raised taxes and spending did not go down. it went up. then they went to bush eight years later, who learned nothing from reagan, and they said we will give you $2 of imaginary spending cuts for every dollar tax increase why not offer them $10 in imaginary, since it is all imaginary? he was offered $2. spending went up and not down. so we have played this game before. politicians who want to spend more money say we will cut spending in return for tax increases. they take the tax increases. because of that, you have to get to spending restraint. the 50 states have made a commitment not to raise taxes. those states that don't raise taxes, texas, florida, reform government. those states where taxes are on the table, maryland keeps raising taxes and spending like crazy. illinois keeps raising taxes instead of reforming government. california just decided to raise taxes instead of reforming their pension system. so the states are divided into those states that don't raise taxes and ar
in 1982 they said ronald reagan let's raise taxes and we will cut spending. they raised taxes and spending did not go down. it went up. then they went to bush eight years later, who learned nothing from reagan, and they said we will give you $2 of imaginary spending cuts for every dollar tax increase why not offer them $10 in imaginary, since it is all imaginary? he was offered $2. spending went up and not down. so we have played this game before. politicians who want to spend more money say we...
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if i may continue quickly, ronald reagan used the bully pulpit with tip o'neill as the speaker in the '80s, he was able to get things done. likewise, president clinton was also able to get things done. there is no peacekeeping -- i will wrap it up. there is no is skipping the president obama has failed to lead. he has led us. i love what he says. i voted for hope and change four years ago. now, i find myself for the president who is not able to call people into his office, make phone calls, and say, let's work something out. i think mitt romney is more likely to be able to actually get things started. host: we appreciate your time this morning. here is the lead story from "the globe and mail." mitt romney, a obama struggle to sway the nation's voters with his running mate in place and his convention of looming -- mitt romney naturally trills obama. ronald on the democrats' line. you are on the air. what are your thoughts about the caller: fiscal: -- fiscal cliff. caller: it is mind boggling to say obama fails to lead it. i remember they were putting him on the back, you are doing a go
if i may continue quickly, ronald reagan used the bully pulpit with tip o'neill as the speaker in the '80s, he was able to get things done. likewise, president clinton was also able to get things done. there is no peacekeeping -- i will wrap it up. there is no is skipping the president obama has failed to lead. he has led us. i love what he says. i voted for hope and change four years ago. now, i find myself for the president who is not able to call people into his office, make phone calls, and...
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under ronald reagan we cut rates to 28%. and under george bush we cut the investment taxes. and every time we cut the tax rates, guess what, the economy boomed and the share of taxes paid by the rich people like the sam waltnd fance and bill gates increased their taxes that they paid. so the argument i would make to my liberal friends is history proves if you want to get taxes out of rich people cut their taxes. there's a famous quote from kennedy who was selling a tax cut i think i can quote this word for word. it is a paradoxcal truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low. and the best way to increase the revenues is to cut the tax rates now. well, that's a pretty profound thing to say. i agree with you. i want the rich to pay more taxes. what i'm saying is get rid of the loopholes, lower the rates and they will. but let's not go back to 09% tax rates. you're going to see er job in america leave. we won't have any jobs left in this country. host: you've got a chapter 2 called how do we create a fair society? which seems to be the question everybody
under ronald reagan we cut rates to 28%. and under george bush we cut the investment taxes. and every time we cut the tax rates, guess what, the economy boomed and the share of taxes paid by the rich people like the sam waltnd fance and bill gates increased their taxes that they paid. so the argument i would make to my liberal friends is history proves if you want to get taxes out of rich people cut their taxes. there's a famous quote from kennedy who was selling a tax cut i think i can quote...
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reagan called, the phone call was immediately returned. boehner's argument was that he had to put together a congressional deal. he thought it would affect the financial markets. that is his excuse. president said, "why didn't he just call and say, i am working on tit." it was the silence that offended the president and the white house staff. boehner did call and said he was backing out. one of the aids who work with them for years -- one of the aides said he was spewing coals like a furnace in the oval office that day. the worry was the president was so furious when he was on the phone that he would literally break the phone. scott pelley asked if he was in a phone-breaking mood. the president said he was very angry. host: you write about it lack of deference on the democratic side, too. why do you think that is? guest: a lot has to do with harry reid, who goes to a meeting with the president on a sunday night at 6:00 p.m. go to the meeting and you can see what happens. one of the most interesting meetings i've ever reported on. harry rei
reagan called, the phone call was immediately returned. boehner's argument was that he had to put together a congressional deal. he thought it would affect the financial markets. that is his excuse. president said, "why didn't he just call and say, i am working on tit." it was the silence that offended the president and the white house staff. boehner did call and said he was backing out. one of the aids who work with them for years -- one of the aides said he was spewing coals like a...
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ronald reagan inherited for a tax system in which it was very high as a share of gdp in the top tax rate was 70%. our biggest problem was inflation. a big part of his concern was how do we stop inflation without destroying the economy? i think that th tax cut of 1981 , which i had something to do with, was exactly the right medicine at exactly the right time. but the problem is today's republicans don't pay any attention to what is actually going on in the economy. they just say let's keep doing the same thing over and over again no matter what aunt completely is disconnected from reality. it seems perfectly obvious, i would think, that you're not going to get the same stimulus effect from reducing the top rate from 70% to 50% as you get from reducing the top rate of 35% to 28%. it's not nearly as big of an increase in your incentive and you are not going to get any kind of reasonable effect. on the other side, republicans talk as if a deficit has nothing to do with revenues. we aren't -- we now have lost revenues as a share of gdp than nevada my lifetime. i am not so young, unfortunatel
ronald reagan inherited for a tax system in which it was very high as a share of gdp in the top tax rate was 70%. our biggest problem was inflation. a big part of his concern was how do we stop inflation without destroying the economy? i think that th tax cut of 1981 , which i had something to do with, was exactly the right medicine at exactly the right time. but the problem is today's republicans don't pay any attention to what is actually going on in the economy. they just say let's keep...
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he talked about both president bush's and talk about ronald reagan. what he tried to do and many people think he did affectively was to both praise republican presidents and at the same time blame them. i think it is tough to tell how much he swayed any independence out there. i think the democrats for give bill clinton in many respects. i think those republicans who did not like bill clinton before, will not like him any better after last night's speech. host: you had an interview with president obama. guest: it was on a different television station. sure honest, i'm not which television station that was but it was not us. host: what is the word on the vice president joe biden? guest: vice president joe biden has a story that reputation in many respects in the democratic party. people love him. affectional the call him joe. i think they think of him as joe and not necessarily by his title because they fuehrer -- feel comfortable with him. tonight, joe biden will do what he often does which is to come out swinging and be the pit bull and the charismat
he talked about both president bush's and talk about ronald reagan. what he tried to do and many people think he did affectively was to both praise republican presidents and at the same time blame them. i think it is tough to tell how much he swayed any independence out there. i think the democrats for give bill clinton in many respects. i think those republicans who did not like bill clinton before, will not like him any better after last night's speech. host: you had an interview with...
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my point was if you raise the marginal rates to a high number like before ronald reagan, they just hired more cpa's and lawyers and find ways to avoid taxes. that is a natural edge human reaction. on the janitor issue, my younger daughter worked as a janitor and a first baptist church in georgia. it was her first job and she went in and clean the church and the restaurant and did everything and she got paid. she was glad she had the job. she was in junior high and they -- it gave her some money to go to things and taught her healthy habits. you have to show up. both of my children were all the way through high school and college and the boat learned terrific lessons. they have their own businesses and there were very successful. i talk to people who are extraordinarily successful who started at 14 years of age and got paid for it. my point was if you could have an opportunity and people who did exactly what i described, you have an opportunity in the poorest neighborhoods in america to pay kids to do some work or they work in the school library or the cafeteria, they help mop the floors,
my point was if you raise the marginal rates to a high number like before ronald reagan, they just hired more cpa's and lawyers and find ways to avoid taxes. that is a natural edge human reaction. on the janitor issue, my younger daughter worked as a janitor and a first baptist church in georgia. it was her first job and she went in and clean the church and the restaurant and did everything and she got paid. she was glad she had the job. she was in junior high and they -- it gave her some money...
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as far as social security goes, ronald reagan already raised the age on me. it does not need to be raised again. they need to take the cap off. let people retire at a decent age when the younger people start working. host: let me give this some opinions this morning. the new york times editorial page. we will talk about foreign affairs coming up around 8:45 eastern time when we have a roundtable discussion with two reporters about the president's agenda. also this morning, lots of in the papers about the cliff walk. karl rove had a piece about why he thought the president won. he said -- fred barnes, a conservative also writes -- he will be our guest tomorrow morning to talk about the future of the republican party. tv ratings for election night approached 2008 records. this is from "the new york times." may break it down by networks in case you are interested in that. rebuttal raises questions about his role. one of fox executive one floor up when karl rove questioned why fox was calling ohio for president obama, the team of producers allowed him to say on t
as far as social security goes, ronald reagan already raised the age on me. it does not need to be raised again. they need to take the cap off. let people retire at a decent age when the younger people start working. host: let me give this some opinions this morning. the new york times editorial page. we will talk about foreign affairs coming up around 8:45 eastern time when we have a roundtable discussion with two reporters about the president's agenda. also this morning, lots of in the papers...
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>> caller: yes, ma'am, i was going to say, huntsman is the only one qualified to be -- the rest is ronald reagan, [audio difficulty] -- that's all i've got to say. >> let's hear from another michael, a republican in stewarttown, pennacchio. good morning. >> caller: yes, good morning. i wanted to say that i believe that most of huntsman's votes will go to ron paul because jon huntsman was the only other one in the race who was pretty much anti-war. i believe the peace candidate is going to win eventually. and the other thing, if you look at it, ron paul is the only one who gets consistent independent and democratic votes. if we think mitt romney, who half of the republican party doesn't even like, is going to be able to win, we're fooling ourselves f. we don't vote for ron paul, there's no way to get the cross-over vote. no way we'll win against barack obama. >> kansas city, kansas. nate , independent line. nate, what do you think of jon huntsman? >> caller: well, i do not think he has the name recognition that mitt romney has and also if you remember, mitt romney also pulled out of the la
>> caller: yes, ma'am, i was going to say, huntsman is the only one qualified to be -- the rest is ronald reagan, [audio difficulty] -- that's all i've got to say. >> let's hear from another michael, a republican in stewarttown, pennacchio. good morning. >> caller: yes, good morning. i wanted to say that i believe that most of huntsman's votes will go to ron paul because jon huntsman was the only other one in the race who was pretty much anti-war. i believe the peace candidate...